2024 Spring Concert: The Cret String Trio

These two masterpieces mark the extreme ends of the string trio genre. Mozart's late work, written three years before his death, was the first work written for string trio (and Mozart played viola at the premiere!). Schoenberg's autobiographical trio, too, was composed at the end of his life while recovering from a near-fatal heart attack. Both works take the listener along emotional extremes that range from great sadness to unfettered joy.